straitjacket

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.
 * 2)  Any situation seen as confining or restricting.
 * 3) * 2009, Michael Giffin, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 99:
 * [I]f we remain in one discipline, we remain in a straitjacket; an adequate theory of language evolution requires a lot of interdisciplinary work.
 * [I]f we remain in one discipline, we remain in a straitjacket; an adequate theory of language evolution requires a lot of interdisciplinary work.



Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: усмирителна риза
 * Catalan: camisa de força
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 約束服
 * Czech:
 * Danish: spændetrøje
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: trudkitelo
 * Estonian: hullusärk
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: spennitreyja
 * Ido: koakto-kamizolo
 * Irish: seaicéad ceangail
 * Italian: camicia di forza
 * Japanese: 拘束衣
 * Korean: 구속복
 * Macedonian: лудачка кошула
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: tvangstrøye
 * Plautdietsch: Spaunjak
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: colete de forças, camisa de força
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: camisa de fuerza
 * Swedish: tvångströja
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: caethwasgod
 * Yiddish: משוגעים־העמדל

Verb

 * 1)  To put someone into a straitjacket.
 * 2)  To restrict the freedom of, either physically or psychologically.

Translations

 * Amharic: am
 * Dutch: iemand een dwangbuis aandoen
 * Finnish: pukea pakkopaitaan
 * French:
 * Ido: koakto-kamizolizar
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish: sätta tvångströja på


 * Dutch: iemand in zijn vrijheid beperken
 * Finnish: pukea pakkopaitaan
 * Swedish: